Well just over 2 weeks since the last time checkgmail broke and now it has happened again. Slightly different this time in that it still notifies new mails, but you can't do anything with them any more. All the features which make checkgmail the best mail notifier (when it works) are gone. Mark Read, Archive, Report Spam, Delete and the preview mode just hang indefinitely. I have redone all the things I mentioned in my own tutorial (and also the later fixes) and nothing makes any difference.

It makes you wonder if checkgmail is worth it any more

Edit. Some further investigation of this indicates that it is trying to view the message preview (by clicking the message title) that is freezing checkgmail. If I restart the app all other functions are available again, but if I try and view the preview again it just freezes and all the other functions fail. There are no error messages in the terminal, when I click on the title to view the preview it just says 'There is one new message', nothing more.

andra, I just had a look at your proposed patch on sourceforge and for me it works. So first of all thanks a million for working that out, and second of all, I hope you won't mind me adding it to this topic as yet another checkgmail 'fix'.

So with all thanks due to andra as mentioned above, here is how you fix checkgmail this time around - don't ask me how long this one will last

One thing is on the horizon, at least for those of you who use Ubuntu as well as Mint and that is that in Raring checkgmail no longer appears in the Unity panel. I think the reason for this is quoted here:

An option allowing applications lacking App Indicator support to show in the system tray has been removed from Ubuntu 13.04.

Applications and services not using the feature were hidden by default in Ubuntu 11.04 – but could be manually re-enabled through a hidden settings option.

Now, in requesting the removal of this configurable ‘whitelist’ from the up-coming Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu’s Matthew Paul Thomas argues that developers have had enough time to adopt the App Indicator spec.

So obviously Matthew Paul Thomas doesn't use checkgmail or realise the speed of their responses

Ok, I am using Ubuntu 13.10i updated perl and followed all the commands given in tutorial.also downloaded the txt file from http://pastebin.com/DUDhfATJ.and followed that. yet, i get the plain checkgmail, the kinda you get with no_cookies.how can i enable cookies, to get the nice old checkgmail?